Huawei Data Storage Builds Reliable Infrastructure to Accelerate Digital Intelligence in Europe

The Data Storage Summit held at HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 · Madrid was a huge success, focusing on Building Reliable Data Infrastructure to Accelerate Digital Intelligence in Europe. Industry experts, scholars, and enterprise representatives from around the world gathered to explore the development trajectory of data infrastructure in the AI era. They shared best practices, engaged in discussions on AI-ready data infrastructure, and unveiled all-flash product updates and strategies, aiming to inject strong momentum into the digital intelligence of European enterprises.

At the summit, Yuan Yuan, Vice President of the Huawei Data Storage Product Line, unveiled future-facing data storage solutions designed to build all-flash data centers for the AI era—enabling faster data access, stronger resilience, and greater flexibility:

• Data acceleration: OceanStor Pacific 9926 All-Flash Scale-Out Storage improves storage capacity density and efficiency with die on board (DoB) stacking, making all-flash more inclusive. OceanDisk 1800 Smart Disk Enclosure implements flexible storage and compute decoupling based on the DPU and diskless architecture. OceanDisk 1610 Smart Disk Enclosure boosts performance and density to reduce costs and improve efficiency in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI scenarios.
• Data resilience: OceanCyber solution builds an end-to-end resilience platform through unified detection, detection and prevention collaboration, and recovery drills.
• Data lake: DME (Omni-Dataverse) unified data space achieves visualized management and intelligent data flow for EB-level data.

Yuan Yuan, Vice President of the Data Storage Product Line, Huawei

Dr. med. Moon Kim, CTO of Institute for AI in Medicine (IKIM) and Principal Investigator of Medical Informatics and Medical Data Annotation, Essen University Hospital (UKE), said that as a top university hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, UKE has implemented the smart hospital strategy and is now focusing on building AI-ready infrastructure. With Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage and OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage, the hospital has built a high-performance and reliable data foundation to improve healthcare efficiency and quality.

Dr. med. Moon Kim, CTO of IKIM and Principal Investigator of Medical Informatics and Medical Data Annotation, UKE

José Carlos Alves, the IT Infrastructure Platform Engineering Area Manager at Sonae MC, said that Sonae, one of the best retail groups in Portugal, always provides a wide range of quality products at the best prices. Currently, Sonae has deployed Huawei's OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage in its data centers to provide powerful data support for the group's mission-critical business systems, seeing a considerable improvement in operational efficiency and customer experiences.

José Carlos Alves, IT Infrastructure Platform Engineering Area Manager, Sonae MC

Nil Mekki, CEO of Mextor, stated that Mextor, as a leading managed service provider (MSP) in France, is committed to providing high-quality IT managed services for customers worldwide. With the ultra-high performance and flexible disaster recovery strategies of Huawei OceanStor All-Flash Storage, Mextor provides industry-leading managed services, helping small and medium-sized enterprises accelerate digital transformation. Looking ahead, Mextor will continue to deepen its cooperation with Huawei, integrate AI to provide high-level service innovations for MSPs, and further optimize the cost-effectiveness ratio.

Nil Mekki, CEO of Mextor

Jorge Copa, Director of Spain Data Center Solution Sales Dept. of Huawei, shared the four innovations of Huawei's new-gen all-flash storage: new architecture, new resilience, new intelligence, and new business model. As we enter the AI era, the New-Gen OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage boasts industry-leading block-file-object convergence, delivers extreme performance and resilience, and adopts AI-powered O&M. It will bring all-new user experiences while bringing mission-critical applications into the AI era.

Jorge Copa, Director of Spain Data Center Solution Sales Dept., Huawei

Zhang Weiguang, Director of Huawei's European Enterprise Data Center Marketing & Solution Sales Dept., said that Huawei Data Storage will continue to work with industry users, ecosystem partners, and technical talent to promote storage innovation, breakthroughs, and the implementation of application scenarios. At the event, the OceanClub Data Storage User Club MVP award was presented to experts and partners who have made significant contributions to the data storage industry and ecosystem.

Huawei Data Storage continues to work with partners to drive quality industry development and develop competitive products and scenario-specific solutions. It is committed to building efficient and reliable data infrastructure for European customers, accelerating digital and intelligent transformation across industries.